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Healthy Bananas Recipes

Bananas rapidly going brown in the fruit bowl? Frombananamuffins and banana cake to banana fritters and bananadesserts,this is the
Collection for you! If you're after banana bread, check outourBanana bread & sweet loaves
Bananas are easy to eat, great to cook with, and have amellow,creamy flavor that still suggests tropical sun.
In Season: The banana's peak season is January through April,butthe fruit is available year-round in supermarkets.
What to look For: Choose plump, evenly colored yellowbananasflecked with tiny brown specks (a sign of ripeness). Avoidthosewith
Blemishes, which usually indicate bruising.
How to Store: Ripe bananas can be stored in the refrigeratorforseveral days. The peel will turn brown but the fleshwillremain
Unchanged.
Bananas are the most popular fresh fruit in the United States.Theyhave a peel that comes off easily, they ripen afterthey'vebeen
rank fourth after rice, wheat and maize in human consumption;theyare grown in 130 countries worldwide, more than for anyotherfruit
crop. Bananas are native to tropical southeastern Asia.
Bananas are a valuable source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C,andpotassium.
The four leading banana exporter countries were Ecuador, CostaRica,Philippines, and Colombia; accounted for about two
thirds of the worlds exports; with each exporting more than1million tons. Ecuador alone provided more than 30% ofglobalbanana
exports according to FAO statistics.

Bananas are classified either as dessert bananas (meaningtheyare yellow and fully ripe when eaten) or as green cookingBananasand plantains constitute a major staple food crop formillions ofpeople in developing countries. In most tropicalcountries
green (unripe) bananas used for cooking represent themaincultivars. Cooking bananas are very similar to potatoes in howtheyare
used. Both can be fried, boiled, baked or chipped and havesimilartaste and texture when served. Nutritionally onegreencooking
banana has about the same nutritional and calorie content asonepotato.

The vast majority of producers are small-scale farmersgrowingthe crop either for home consumption or for localmarkets.Because
bananas and plantains will produce fruit year-round, they provideanextremely valuable source of food during the hungerseason(that
period of time when all the food from the previous harvest hasbeenconsumed, and the next harvest is still some time away). Itisfor
these reasons that bananas and plantains are of major importancetofood security.

List of banana dishes

This is a list of banana dishes in which banana or plantainisused as a primary ingredient. Foods prepared with bananaorplantain as
a primary ingredient are also included in this list. A banana isanedible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous
flowering plants in the genus Musa.[1] (In some countries,bananasused for cooking may be called plantains.) The fruit isvariablein
size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved,withsoft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which maybegreen,
yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow inclustershanging from the top of the plant.

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